OM Fans Are Setting Themselves Up for Major Disappointment

[Jarius]

I doubt that. He's OM... if he's replaced, it'll be after the season imo

They also don't have an athletic director or a chancellor and won't have one until the end of the semester from what I have read. I doubt they make a move until that happens.

[BuckyIsAB****]

ESPN FPI...
51.4% favorite over Memphis
73.4% favorite over ark
98.7% favorite over sela
73.0% favorite over cal

They could win all of those and not be very good. They will be better than Arkansas, Cal is Cal and Memphis will be a dogfight but they probably pull it out as well

[WPS]

They could win all of those and not be very good. They will be better than Arkansas, Cal is Cal and Memphis will be a dogfight but they probably pull it out as well

I really thought Arkansas was going to run away with it in last year's game, Hogs were up 27-10 at one point IIRC. Defense (predictably) collapsed in the last 2 minutes and gave up the game-winning 90+ yard drive for OM. Storey and Boyd both got knocked out with injuries during parts of the game then Arkansas couldn't move the ball at all in the 2nd half.

Probably going to be an ugly game either way this year.

[TrapGame]

I really thought Arkansas was going to run away with it in last year's game, Hogs were up 27-10 at one point IIRC. Defense (predictably) collapsed in the last 2 minutes and gave up the game-winning 90+ yard drive for OM. Storey and Boyd both got knocked out with injuries during parts of the game then Arkansas couldn't move the ball at all in the 2nd half.

Probably going to be an ugly game either way this year.

Knee capping your starting QB really helped.

[TALL DAWG]

Knee capping your starting QB really helped.

If UM has any injuries to their O-line they are in for
a long season. They are Razor thin there.
Going to be an up hill climb w/o any injuries to begin with.
I hope their QB and RB?s know how to take a pounding because
ITs coming...😱

[Jarius]

They could win all of those and not be very good. They will be better than Arkansas, Cal is Cal and Memphis will be a dogfight but they probably pull it out as well

I think saying they will be better than Arkansas is extremely premature. Chad Morris has a serviceable qb now and they would have beaten OM last year if they would not have gotten their QB hurt in the second qtr. Ole Miss plays them at home but from the look of their season ticket sales it won't be much of a home field advantage.

[BrunswickDawg]

I think saying they will be better than Arkansas is extremely premature. Chad Morris has a serviceable qb now and they would have beaten OM last year if the dirty bastards hadn't targeted yet another QB and knocked them out of the gamein the second qtr. Ole Miss plays them at home but from the look of their season ticket sales it won't be much of a home field advantage.

FIFY

[MedDawg]

FIFY

At one point they had three P5 wins in a row (over several losses and non-P5 wins) from knocking the other team's QB out of the game (State, Texas Tech, and Arkansas).

[TrapGame]

I was looking over at NAFOOM about the murder investigation and noticed a thread discussing Rich Rod and it seems they think they are going to be somewhat formidable offensively this season.

[timotheus]

he better find some magic dust then.

[thf24]

I was looking over at NAFOOM about the murder investigation and noticed a thread discussing Rich Rod and it seems they think they are going to be somewhat formidable offensively this season.

They actually have pretty good skill personnel for Rich Rod's offense on their roster, but for that to yield results they'll have to have some crazy surprises on the OL.

[Jarius]

They actually have pretty good skill personnel for Rich Rod's offense on their roster, but for that to yield results they'll have to have some crazy surprises on the OL.

They have a redshirt freshman pro style quarterback running the spread option. They lost 3 draft picks at wide receiver and will be playing a bunch of talented young guys ( per recruiting rankings ) with almost no experience.

[thf24]

They have a redshirt freshman pro style quarterback running the spread option. They lost 3 draft picks at wide receiver and will be playing a bunch of talented young guys ( per recruiting rankings ) with almost no experience.

I don't believe Corral will be the starting QB for long, if at all; I see them moving Pellerin back to QB. They have several good running backs and enough at WR to run the zone read. Like I said though, none of that will matter a whole lot if their OL doesn't tremendously exceed expectations.

[Jarius]

I don't believe Corral will be the starting QB for long, if at all; I see them moving Pellerin back to QB. They have several good running backs and enough at WR to run the zone read. Like I said though, none of that will matter a whole lot if their OL doesn't tremendously exceed expectations.

I mean they brought Corral to SEC media day. I think they are pretty locked in with him.

[timotheus]

Corral has all the skills and he understands the O but his weakness is his lack of the calm leadership demeanor that an SEC QB needs. Rich Rod has made productive players out of less before.

[thf24]

I mean they brought Corral to SEC media day. I think they are pretty locked in with him.

I'm not interested in arguing about OM too much more and I know you know more than me about this kind of stuff. But I can't help but think that after 4-5 games of the clown show that will be Corral trying to run the ball behind the OL they'll have, it will get really hard to ignore the senior sitting in their TE room who's played QB before and is a much better fit for what Rich Rod wants to do. Hell, if things get really bad I could even see them throwing Plumlee to the wolves; they've done much stupider things for the sake of perception before.

Corral has all the skills and he understands the O but his weakness is his lack of the calm leadership demeanor that an SEC QB needs. Rich Rod has made productive players out of less before.

I'd completely agree if they were going to have a decent OL. Imagine Tyler Russell trying to do the same things he was asked to do in 2012 behind our 2015 OL. I just feel like it'll be really hard to get anything going consistently with a weak runner in an offensive predicated on the threat of the QB run (even if he's not actually being asked to run a lot) with as poor a degree of blocking as they're likely going to have.

[Jarius]

I'm not interested in arguing about OM too much more and I know you know more than me about this kind of stuff. But I can't help but think that after 4-5 games of the clown show that will be Corral trying to run the ball behind the OL they'll have, it will get really hard to ignore the senior sitting in their TE room who's played QB before and is a much better fit for what Rich Rod wants to do. Hell, if things get really bad I could even see them throwing Plumlee to the wolves; they've done much stupider things for the sake of perception before.



I'd completely agree if they were going to have a decent OL. Imagine Tyler Russell trying to do the same things he was asked to do in 2012 behind our 2015 OL. I just feel like it'll be really hard to get anything going consistently with a weak runner in an offensive predicated on the threat of the QB run (even if he's not actually being asked to run a lot) with as poor a degree of blocking as they're likely going to have.

I think there is a large % chance that Corral gets broken in half running that offense, so in a way I agree with you. I expect Plumlee to be their #2 option. He's been told that he will have packages put in for him and I think that's the direction they will go if that psycho they have playing qb currently blows a gasket and does something extremely stupid.